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Ken Griffey Jr. spoke to the media on Saturday. He said he doesn't have his speech for Sunday fully written, but it sounds like he'll talk about one of his Mariners teammates who he thinks should join him in the Hall of Fame.

Ken Griffey Jr. spoke to the media on Saturday. He said he doesn't have his speech for Sunday fully written, but it sounds like he'll talk about one of his Mariners teammates who he thinks should join him in the Hall of Fame. T.J. Cotterilltcotterill@thenewstribune.com

Ken Griffey Jr. spoke to the media on Saturday. He said he doesn't have his speech for Sunday fully written, but it sounds like he'll talk about one of his Mariners teammates who he thinks should join him in the Hall of Fame. T.J. Cotterilltcotterill@thenewstribune.com

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Martinez grew up in Puerto Rico before spending all 18 years of his major league career with the Mariners. He has a career batting average of .312, hit 514 doubles and 309 home runs and was a seven-time All-Star and won two batting titles.

Martinez has been on the Hall of Fame ballot the past seven years without earning the 75 percent of votes needed from the Baseball Writers Association of America to earn a spot in the Hall of Fame. He received 43.4 percent this past year.

He was inducted into the Mariners’ hall of fame in 2007. He is the organization’s all-time leader in batting average (.312), hits (2,247), doubles (514), walks (1,283) and games played (2,055).

Griffey shied away from alluding what else he might include in his speech. Though when asked about his first impression of Seattle and how that changed –

“I can’t talk about that, either,” he said. “Just hate to break it to you, but yeah.”

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